Re: Court orders for blocking of streaming services

[Jim Popovitch via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On Sun, 2022-05-08 at 12:01 +0000, Mel Beckman wrote:
> The plaintiff’s won a default judgement, because the defendants didn’t show up in court.  But they could not have 
> shown up in court, because they were only listed as “John Does” in the lawsuit. Thus no defendant could have “actual 
> knowledge” that they were sued, let alone be serviced with litigation documents. For the court to then approve 
> sanctions against innocent non-parties to the suit is a logical contradiction.  
>
> This just illustrates yet another way our legal system is horribly broken. Just as was demonstrated by the lawsuit 
> from the family of an oil change outlet’s employee against a totally innocent customer, after that employee was 
> killed by negligence of a fellow employee and the oil change outfit’s management. The car owner had no hand in the 
> death, and in fact wasn’t present and had no power to prevent it. Yet he is the one being sued. 

So odd to see someone on NANOG describe a video I just watched.  For the
interested here it is from Steve Lehto's channel:

Oil Change Customer Sued After Worker Kills Someone w/Car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVXN1oEWKZE

That guy also did one on the subject of this thread:

Court Orders All ISPs to Block Three Specific Services:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LrieGDMac8
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-Jim P.